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plato real ideas
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion. Arthur Koestler
plato book reading
If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash of the best and the oldest. To read Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Milton, Spenser, Chaucer, and their compeers in prose, is to read in condensed form what all others have diluted. Anna C. Brackett
plato people haughtiness
With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot. Stephen Jay Gould
plato philosophy philosophical
The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.
plato philosophical knowledge
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. Alfred North Whitehead
plato men intelligent
No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated. Plato
plato philosophy drinking
The democratic youth lives along day by day, gratifying the desire that occurs to him, at one time drinking and listening to the flute, at another downing water and reducing, now practicing gymnastic, and again idling and neglecting everything; and sometimes spending his time as though he were occupied in philosophy.
plato honesty dishonesty
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
plato ignorance doors
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
names people tragedy
Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy. Brett Favre
names suffering firsts
What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated. Arthur Adamov
names people goes-on
It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name. Jamie Farr
names substance matter
This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm. Asa Gray
names wonderland strange
I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family. Brie Larson
names sexism dear
Dear me no Dears, Sir ... Aphra Behn
names hollywood thirty
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. Ben Hecht
names long gone
The name Van Halen, the family legacy, is going to go on long after I'm gone. Eddie Van Halen
names evil intellectual
What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism. Eliphas Levi
giving lauren thank
Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve,
giving people challenges
A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me. Archie Panjabi
giving-up dont-give-up beats
It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up. Babe Ruth
giving-up real struggle
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing. Baruch Spinoza
giving pleasure
It can never be wrong to give pleasure. Augustine Birrell
giving be-who-you-are want
What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do. Arthur Mitchell
giving advice curious
I've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer. Aziz Ansari
giving lectures stranger
[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger. Ayelet Waldman
giving-up struggle want
Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it. Ayn Rand